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Article: WOMEN'S LIVES BEHIND THE VEIL AND THE BARBED WIRE.(The Veiled Kingdom)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- August 1, 2005
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The Veiled Kingdom. Carmen bin Ladin. Virago. [pounds sterling]10.99 p.b. x + 209 pages. ISBN 1-84408-102-8. Sharon and my Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries. Suad Amiry. Granta Books. [pounds sterling]12.99. xi + 194 pages. ISBN 1-86207-721-5.
'The Arabic word for woman, hormah, derives from the word haram: sin'. The Swedish-born Carmen Dufour was barely into her twenties when she met and fell in love with the elegant and exotic Yeslam in Geneva in 1973. He was one of fifty-four children, the tenth son of a wealthy Saudi sheikh. When they married in the summer of 1974, Carmen became a member of a clan that would become one of the most infamous of the twenty-first ...